Transition column: Luigi Russi (author of Hungry Capital: The Financialisation of Food)
Ending the Hypnosis of Normality: Stories Dying to be Told by Smartmeme Studio’s James John Bell
Shared Assets: A 21st Century Commons by founder Mark Walton
Interview with commons activist and advocate David Bollier (author and co-editor of last year’s Wealth of the Commons)
Democracy at Work? Britain’s co-operatives and trade unions should team up to establish a federation of union co-ops argues James Doran (member of Darlington’s non-profit Café Create)
Special Music Pull-Out: Three Acres and a Cow chord sheet with the history of the song from folk musician and historian Robin Grey
Owenstown: A New Co-operative Town by Project Director Bill Nicol
A Commons Timeline of victories and initiatives from around the global commons movement by activist Silke Helfrich
Permablitz: Permaculture-inspired garden makeovers to create more local food growing spaces, organized by the recently formed Permablitz London by Susannah Hall
15 Years Since Napster: What Have We learned? by musician and author Mat Callahan
Real Food Van by Laurie Walters (a member of the Peasant Evolution Producers’ Co-operative and the UK branch of La Via Campesina)
The Anti-Capitalism of the Commons: Elinor Ostrom by the Green Party’s International Co-ordinator Derek Wall
Co-operative Architecture by the Cave Co-op founders Vera Hale and Liz Crisp
A review of Ivan Illich’s recently republished Beyond Economics and Ecology by commoner and Dark Mountain co-founder Dougald Hine
And the story of last issue’s Sponsored Project Counselling for Social Change
Original art by Matthew Frame (Cover), Gemma Cotterell, Luke Carter, Sam Parr, Edd Baldry, David Peter Kerr
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